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1980 Legends of Bowling final
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2009
- This oddball bowling mini-series aired on three consecutive Saturdays in 1980 as part of NBC's SportsWorld series. The first two weeks' episodes showed "semi-final" matches. Sadly, I didn't keep either one. Don Carter bowled on one of them, but his team lost. Shown here is the final match, pitting two teams of three bowlers. The "blue" team comprised of Tom Baker, Pat Costello and Harry Smith. The "yellow" team comprised of Earl Anthony, Donna Adamek and Ed Lubanski. The game consisted of 7 frames, with a combination of strikes and spare shots, with point values assigned to each frame. The winning team got a chance to make the "big money split" at the end. This series always struck me as being sort of Mickey Mouse. With all the annoying music and buzzers going off, it seemed more like a Goodson-Todman game show. Play-by-play announcer is NBC's Sam Nover. Color analyist is Steve Neff. Off-stage announcer is the legendary NBC voice, Don Pardo.
Eddie was a great bowler in his day.
I recall and still appreciates all the help he gave me over thirty years ago. Whether, ask for or not. Lol! Miss ya.
From the D.
Rest in Peace.
And the retro synthetic lanes... that's pretty neat, too. I'm still amazed at how deep Tom Baker was playing the left lane - practically sliding in the left gutter. In 1980!
I miss 80s
Theme music is "Good Times" by Keith Mansfield.
Gotta love Lubanski with the 2-finger grip on the LT-48!
it does sound like a goodson-todman show due to some of the sound cues
RIP Don Pardo.
I played bowling for the first time yesterday, scored 8 strikes and I threw the ball 45 km an hour. Im hooked.
I can hear dinging bells for when strikes and spares were made, too...
Heavens, I wish I did!
I know they did a special presentation of that toward the late 1980s and there was one version much earlier than that.
MORE!!! I NEED TO SEE MORE!!!!!
Thanks for this one!
I LOVED seeing that old rubber brunswick ball!!! Remember, this is 1980, when you could get the columbia 300 and the yellow dot, and those great composite ebonite balls.
I remember this goofy contest as well. So NBC tried to combine bowling with game shows. At least 8 years later, they improved on another bowling contest on SportsWorld called The Great Bowling Shoot-Out (similar to golf's the Skins Game), which went from 1988-1990.
Earl, Earl, Earl (RIP)...he was the greatest...also rooted for Donna Adamek and Tommy Baker when they were on tour...
I wish you had the other series. Would have loved to see Don Carter bowl.
When I lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Pat Costello was bowling in a WPBA event (or whatever they called the WPBA back then) at Expressway Lanes in Dallas (long gone now). All she did was bowl 867 for three games. I'm sure leidel1985 could only dream of doing that.
Tom Baker looks exactly like Frank Zappa in this show! :O
Did he say grace georges
@leopoldmozart
I still use my LT48!!
Gotta love that buzzer....esp at the end of the program.
KXAS is my closest NBC Station.
Miss you Grandpa Ed
this is something that nbc should have put on weekday mornings when they used to have game shows with all those bell and whistles
my grandpas the man
I believe it was "Make That Spare."
R.I.P DON PARDO
Some of these camera angles are absolutely horrible
Sweet shot by Earl at 7:02
00:15 - the matches were held at the Playboy Club. Earl had the home field advantage!!!!
Where in the world did you get this? I loved it!
This was during my bowling heyday and I can't believe I've never seen this. What a goofy format. That music tag gets very annoying. But yeah, I wanna see more!
I agree. I didn’t miss bowling when it was on tv, but I don’t remember this.
WLBZ-TV in Bangor, ME did not carry any NBC ten-pin bowling coverage despite being affiliated with that network...why would that station black out a lot of NBC Sports programming aside from MLB and the NFL? Possibly due to conflicting with local evening news coverage, eh? Another Bangor TV station affiliated with a different network did carry lots of national ten-pin bowling coverage, which I watched regularly when I was a kid.
The TV screen itself might as well have been blacked-out on those camera shots from the back end.
HA HA HA Tom Baker (Dr. Who). Hell he can warp anything, so wonder he got a strike
Pat Costello did a lot for women's bowling in the 1970's and 1980's. She won a lot and was a great ambassador for the sport. Your comment leidel1985 about Pat is out of line. Unfortunately, we all can't be as good looking as you.
Actually, it sounds more like an SNL game show parody. More like Bob Stewart's NBC games in the 1970s.
Pin deck camera angle sucks
Looks like they oiled to 11 feet
Counting the buff!!
anybody notice the brand new brunswick 2000 scoring and ball returns as well as the *gasp* synthetic anvilane I lanes??
This is as cheesy as it gets
wow, was thirty thousand a lot of money long ago? that's about the price of my student loans for three years.
My least favorite thing is them rolling around and running it out all over the floor. >...> Seriously? You missed the shot, guess your knees didn't realize right to wrong like the audience did ;)
To be fair, Harry Smith had been doing that for decades. He and Thurm Gibson were Detroit's most notorious "travelers."
Pat Costello, HA HA HA Lou after the sex change